Event Information

International Justice Mission @ GVSU

Date and Time:

Tuesday, February 19, 2013
9:00 PM -
10:00 PM

Location:

AuSable Hall

Description:

IJM meets every Tuesday at 9pm in AuSable Hall room 1115. Come see what we're all about!
"IJM@GVSU" is a new chapter of an organization created at GVSU to shed light on human trafficking to students and to take action by seeking justice for the oppressed.
Mission
To provide resources and practical information on ways to eliminate and prevent human trafficking on a local, national, and international level.
Description
We exist to provide facts and statistics; provide practical ways to eliminate human exploitation; and to provide a safe atmosphere for discussion.
Examples:
Movie: Taken
Documentaries: The Day My God Died, Born in a Brothel
General Information
We meet Tuesday's at 9pm in ASH 1115. Come out and see what we're about!
Officers:
Amber Hendrick
Rachael Rutkowski
Emily Hoisington
What is Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or a modern-day form of slavery (Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia).
The Protocol is the first global, legally binding instrument on trafficking in over half a century and the only one that sets out an agreed definition of trafficking in persons. The purpose of the Protocol is to facilitate convergence in national cooperation in investigating and prosecuting trafficking in persons. An additional objective of the Protocol is to protect and assist the victims of trafficking in persons with full respect for their human rights. The Trafficking Protocol defines human trafficking as:
(a) [...] the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs;
(b) The consent of a victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article shall be irrelevant where any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) have been used;
(c) The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation shall be considered trafficking in persons even if this does not involve any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article;
(d) Child shall mean any person under eighteen years of age.
The Trafficking Protocol entered into force on 25 December 2003. By June 2010, the Trafficking Protocol had been ratified by 117 countries and 137 parties.
(Also from Wiki).